{"id":199475,"date":"2007-07-24T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/24\/disowning-rumsfeld\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T02:20:00","slug":"disowning-rumsfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/24\/disowning-rumsfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Disowning Rumsfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting article in the Military Times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,143478,00.html\">the Pentagon rethinking the drawdown of troops in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article claims that &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The idea of cutting troops from 68,000 in 2001 to 28,000 by 2012 was part of an initiative by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to transform the military into a leaner, more cost-effective force,<\/span>&#8221; but it was really all spite.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsfeld began this policy when the most of the governments of Europe were unwilling to follow him into Iraq.  It&#8217;s a part and parcel of his &#8220;old Europe&#8221; slam.<\/p>\n<p>Gates realizes that reality prevents this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting article in the Military Times about the Pentagon rethinking the drawdown of troops in Europe. The article claims that &#8220;The idea of cutting troops from 68,000 in 2001 to 28,000 by 2012 was part of an initiative by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to transform the military into a leaner, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,964,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-foreign-relations","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}